Weird light formation over Rendlesham Forest - any analysis experts here?

A friend's cousin sent me this photograph apparently taken near Rendlesham Forest (Suffolk area) last week. He claims he saw a formation of lights moving in unison, then they sort of... dissolved? into smaller lights. The photo quality isn't brilliant - taken on a mobile, overexposed - but I'm genuinely puzzled by what this could be.

I've ruled out: helicopters, aircraft landing lights, drones (pattern too fluid and coordinated), flares (wrong colour, wrong trajectory). It's either something genuinely unknown, or it's a really clever bit of digital trickery. I'm leaning toward neither at the moment.

Anyone here good at photo analysis? Happy to share the file - I've got permission from the witness. Particularly interested in the light spectrum and any indication of distance/altitude. Cheers.

Can you link the photo? Before diving into analysis, need to know: when was it taken, what direction was the camera facing, what time of year, weather conditions at the time? Those details matter enormously for identifying ordinary phenomena that look extraordinary on film.

Rendlesham Forest always attracts reports like this. The area's got some interesting historical precedent (1980 incident, etc.), which means people are primed to interpret ambiguous lights as anomalous. Might just be a procedural flight path caught at an unusual angle, reflected off clouds or something.

It's either something genuinely unknown, or it's a really clever bit of digital trickery.

Third option: genuine but explicable. Smartphone cameras are surprisingly bad at capturing light phenomena accurately. Chromatic aberration, lens flare, overexposure creating artifacts - all of these can create genuinely weird-looking results that look 'fake' rather than real. Get a proper forensic analysis done if you're serious.

I've analysed about 200 UFO photos for this forum. Success rate on finding conventional explanations: about 95%. The remaining 5% I just shrug and file under 'unidentified.' Always happy to take a look though. Dm me if you want.